Contracting
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This week on Amtower Off Center, Ana Hirsbrunner, president of Synectics for Management Decisions, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about her family owned small business and the role it plays in the GovCon market.
April 30, 2020 -
The Navy Department's acquisition boss says the pandemic has helped to drive efficiencies into the contracting system, and many of them will need to become a lasting part of how the Navy and Marine Corps do business.
April 29, 2020 -
Small defense businesses are laying off employees, but they may have an opportunity to grow with DoD.
April 28, 2020 -
The General Services Administration’s inspector general reviewed new schedule contracts or those being renewed over a three-year period and found the agency may not be getting the price discounts that the government should expect.
April 28, 2020 -
In two separate reports, VA's inspector general describes opportunities the department missed to learn from DoD's rocky EHR rollout in the Pacific Northwest.
April 28, 2020 -
Laura Stanton, currently the deputy assistant commission for GSA’s IT Category, will take over on an acting basis when Bill Zielinski leaves on June 5.
April 27, 2020 -
GSA says its market research identified the need for a streamlined rideshare/ride-hail services acquisition strategy, which would consolidate the government’s purchase instead of one-off purchases by individual agencies.
April 27, 2020 -
Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement says the MAS Consolidation and Catalog Management is a common-sense vision can deliver innovative, best value, commercial solutions to meet customer agency needs.
April 24, 2020 -
Julie Dunne, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, in her first interview since becoming commissioner said a group of more experienced and product specific contracting officers are leading the procurement response to the pandemic.
April 23, 2020 -
When its Mexico border apprehensions soared last year, Customs and Border Protection hired a contractor to build a temporary detention center. It could hold 2,500 detainees, but in reality, it never had more than a few dozen at a time.
April 22, 2020 -
It looks as if there is solid commitment on the part of the government to ensure contractor employees, who can't get on premises to do their work, to get paid leave.
April 21, 2020 -
OMB released much-anticipated guidance giving agencies important direction for how they should implement the provision in the stimulus bill that lets agencies pay contractors to keep them in a state of ready.
April 21, 2020 -
The Pentagon says major acquisition programs will be set back by three months.
April 20, 2020 -
It’s been several years since budget challenges caused federal agencies to offer widespread buyouts and early-outs to their workforces, but the Defense Contract Management Agency is finding itself in that position now.
April 20, 2020 -
The Navy is trying to work with its industrial base and learn lessons from the crisis.
April 17, 2020